Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Springer claims British TV lags 10 years behind US

Well, Jerry Springer appears to have paid British tv a backhanded compliment, saying that some of our programmes "plod along". I would say that occasionally British programmers are somewhat lazy, and rather than produce quality programmes for a British audience, import the sort of tripe which is produced in the US. And can someone please take Ruby Wax, and Jerry Springer back to America. The sorts of loud and brash programmes hosted by the aforementioned "celebrities" really belong somewhere else:

Springer, whose confessional talk shows are famous for guests swearing and throwing chairs at one another, praised the quality of documentary-making in the UK, but said that British television has some catching up to do.